Before Ireland became the land of heroic warriors, shining gods, and legendary kings, it belonged to far older beings. They ...

Think you know Europe? You’ve ticked off Paris, Rome, Barcelona, and maybe even Amsterdam. That’s fantastic, truly. Those ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

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Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust ...

When a fearsome and ancient species emerges from the ocean, dramatically revealing themselves to humanity, an international ...

New research from Cambridge and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has decoded the mystery of magnetic fossils left by an ancient ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

In celebration of World Walrus Day, National Museum of Natural History director Kirk Johnson talks about his new documentary ...

The machine learning model also revealed only semi-terrestrial habitats for mesosaurs, a group of marine reptiles from 290 million years ago, but fully aquatic habitats for species of ichthyosaurs and ...

An active underwater volcano off Canada's coast has revealed a vibrant deep-sea habitat, teeming with hundreds of thousands ...

The Narmada Parikrama is a sacred Indian pilgrimage. Devotees walk the Narmada River's banks for months. The journey begins ...